Assets, Activities and Rural Income Generation: Evidence from a Multicountry Analysis

World Development

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1435-1452

  Winters, Paul ^a   Davis, Benjamin ^b   Carletto, Gero ^c   Covarrubias, Katia ^d   Quiñones, Esteban J ^d   Zezza, Alberto ^d   Azzarri, Carlo ^d   Stamoulis, Kostas ^d  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b United Nations Children's Fund   (Kenya)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

^d FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

Author keywords

livelihood strategies; meta regression analysis; rural income generating activities

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; INFRASTRUCTURE; RURAL ECONOMY; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 68049087934     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.01.010     Document Type: Article

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